Person:Samuel Thompson (79)

A brief history of the life of Samuel Thompson is given in a GenForum post and is partly confirmed by the 1911 census information although Samuel seems to have died by then. The poster may have confused Samuel Thompson (b. 1846) with Samuel Thompson (b. 1804) although there is evidence that these two are father and son in the 1852 census (see: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census52/View.jsp?id=68900&highlight=50&desc=1852+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Samuel+Thompson) which has a listing of two Samuel Thompsons of the correct ages.

1. ↑ Genforum posting.

   http://genforum.genealogy.com/thompson/messages/24797.html
   
   Hello, Rhona: My great-grandfather was named Samuel Thompson. He lived in Ramsey, Ontario,after(but near 1846) at the North West Fur Company post. His descendandants still live there; they are metis and might still be trapper/hunters. My grandfather(Frederick), one of Samuel's sons, was born in Ramsey; he emigrated to Alberta (then the North West Territories) in about 1885 to Fort Edmonton, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post. Samuel and the other children followed thereafter: Samuel became a chicken farmer at Little Mount on the north edge of Edmonton. His wife was Eliza Ann Hutchings, the daughter of a wealthy harness and hardware merchant from Winnipeg. His son, Herbert, was a soldier of the Great War and a policeman. Joe, another son was a rogue cattle rancher at Provost, AB. Agnes was an obscure daughter. (more)